Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: William Allen; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; Davies Gilbert; Dr. Henry Holland; Charles Konig; John William Lubbock; Herbert Mayo; Roderick Impey Murchison; Captain William Henry Smyth; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Library Committee to direct Mr. Shuckard on the arrangement of the maps collection, with a sub-committee created to consider the best means of keeping them. Letter from Dr. Granville, stating that a work presented to the Royal Society in 1830, 'Science without a head', had been excluded from the Library and remained unacknowledged: Council was unaware of the anonymous pamphlet, but had now directed it be placed in the Library. Letter from Sir James South, Observatory, Kensington, 7 April 1836, to the President and Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: having been called to investigate the state of optical glass-making by the Treasury, he asks to examine the performance of Michael Faraday's glass and that of Mr. Barlow, requesting the Society's help to with Dollond and Barlow, who have the glasses in their keeping, permission granted. Copy of the Greenwich Observations from 1830 to be given to the Observatory at Munich. Copy of the Philosophical Transactions from 1831 to be given to the Royal Geographical Society. |